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zamalek
2y ago
Any reason why they seemingly had and easier time with IPv6? A simple lack of participants in the botnet, or are there some protocol-level tricks going on?
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zamalek
2y ago
So the idea is that LLM1 looks at the output of LLM0 and builds a new set of constraints, and then LLM0 has to try again, rinse and repeat? (LLM0 could be the same as LLM1, and I think it is in the article?)
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zamalek
2y ago
Does it, though? The saying says we shouldn't mistake incompetence for malice, but that requires more than usual for Musk's retinue. Smells like getting a backdoor in early.
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zamalek
2y ago
It might be argued that one of the dynamic programming (caching) ones would be the best by a reasonable standard. These can be used to simulate absolutely monstrous grids, and is where we see simulated CPUs and whatnot. Here's the game
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zamalek
2y ago
"3rD party connectors" is being waved around by armchair critics. The connectors on the receiving end of all of this aren't some cheap knock-off, they are from a reputable manufacturer and probably exceed the baseline.
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zamalek
2y ago
> Any imbalance I watched de-Bauer's analysis this morning, and you've seemingly hit the nail on the head. Even on his test bench it looks like only two of the wires are carrying all of the power (instead of all of them, I thin
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zamalek
2y ago
> reddit karma and name recognition, which do correlate somewhat to monetary value if you're motivated enough This is usually reason #1, and money doesn't have to be involved. Never underestimate the importance of imaginary in
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zamalek
2y ago
> Martin has worked hard on Asahi, but comes of as looking for drama and virtue signalling oftentimes. Aren't these diametrically opposed? Virtue signaling is loudly claiming to have some virtue in the absence of that virtue. Hector
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zamalek
2y ago
You know, Redox (as the "most serious" Rust kernel I can think of) could probably do with non-trivial drivers. It would be unfortunate for aspiring or even seasoned kernel developers to step away from the practice entirely, simply
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zamalek
2y ago
> Are you satisfied like "proof is left as an exercise for the reader" in a math textbook? Or is it like "I have proved this but it's too large to fit in the margins"? In the first example the proof would be avai
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zamalek
2y ago
It's weird that you need to do that at all, couldn't you just reject that token and use the next most probable?
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zamalek
2y ago
I personally draw a distinction between micro-ORMs and ORMs. A micro-orm will simply take a strongly typed flat struct and map it into the set of parameters for a query, and likewise map a single row out to another flat struct (or enume
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zamalek
2y ago
Office is moving to the cloud, so the current dying breed of desktop apps should be covered by WINE, eventually. Or cave in and use O365, like I do for work - the irony is that Microsoft's insistence on O365 has completely defeated the
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zamalek
2y ago
That would be incompetence: US big tech failed to protect data against government spying, I also placed it towards one end of a spectrum. One government also kills (Tiananmen Square) vs engaging in chemical/"non-lethal" a
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zamalek
2y ago
I think it's the fear of what the CCP would do with your data being more on the malice end of the spectrum vs. incompetence. Big USA tech is usually a thorn in the government's side when it comes to surveillance, where big China
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zamalek
2y ago
The original argument is that clr proves Zig is as safe as Rust, per your wording " all the memory safety parts." Does the incompletely POC do all the parts, or doesn't it? That is no criticism against the project itself,
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zamalek
2y ago
> That's not a substantiated claim. The article we are commenting on substantiates it with, several, actual examples. > interpreters In what world do interpreters require unsafe code? A naive interpreter that recursively desc
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zamalek
2y ago
That implies that Hungarian notation is not obnoxious? Sure, that's a fine opinion to have, but I guarantee it is an exceedingly rare one.
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zamalek
2y ago
This is precisely the myth that the article talks about. Miri finds significantly more UB in unsafe Rust than Zig's checks do. Even if it weren't, this exaggeration is a complete theater. You aren't supposed to use unsafe Rus
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zamalek
2y ago
The example given isn't that great. Here's a significantly more common one: var age = get_string_from_somewhere(); var age = parse_to_int(age); Without same-scope shadowing you end up with the obnoxious: var age
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zamalek
2y ago
This is absolutely not what the article is about. A good majority of it is spent on the myth that Zig is safer than Rust, which has nothing to do with wishing Zig was more like Rust.
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zamalek
2y ago
> † Reference counting is a form of garbage collection. I agree with Raymond Chen's take on the academic definition of GCs[1], and therefore Rust is certainly a GC'd language (because your code behaves as though memory is infin
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zamalek
2y ago
Why link to GitHub at all? Not being open source is fine, but using GitHub as your primary entry point seems disingenuous.
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zamalek
2y ago
Roughly, I don't really keep track of precise amounts: 1 cup of water, 1 cup sugar, 1 tbsp salt, a few sprigs of lavender (dried lavender works almost as well). Bring to boil and simmer for 15min to form a simple syrup. This will keep
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zamalek
2y ago
I have found kombucha to be unreasonably good at adding an interesting mouthfeel to cocktails. It's reminiscent of alcohol, but definitely not a perfect imitation. Grapefruit juice is also a regular ingredient of mine.
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zamalek
2y ago
Binaries can do arbitrary things, like report home to a central server. Weights cannot.
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zamalek
2y ago
Zed has recently merged support for helix-like bindings, but it's still pretty far off (e.g. there's no way to default to "helix-normal" mode, meaning your first hotkey will be pure vim). I found it basically unusable fo
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zamalek
2y ago
Discovery code doesn't have to be bad code. My rule of abstractions is that I defer them until they are needed, even if I know that they will be needed in the next sprint or whatever. I'll do a much better job making a precise a
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zamalek
2y ago
I use SoundCloud from time to time, my taste is really niche and it works great for that (but you need to find a relevant artist first). I recently jumped off Qobuz exclusively because of their drunk recommendation algorithm, or lack thereo
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zamalek
2y ago
The point of my rather facetious comment is that IPC a well known thing (I struggle to even call it "tech") that has been around for 30-40 years. I don't understand why Apple needs people to make excuses for them, but this ex
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